Role of the institute of the Plenipotentiary for human rights in the modern civil society: regional aspect

Abstract

In the article the approaches of fundamental ideas of the civil society by the both foreign and domestic philosophers are considered. For a methodological basis the definition of civil society offered by Ya.V. Zubova who considers the civil society "… as pluralistic system which is made by the citizens with certain actions within the special culture" is accepted. Within the specified definition it is possible to consider formation of the civil society through a prism of cultural component as a direct element of the society as a system, in particular legal culture. In this article the existing mechanisms of legal education of the citizens for the purpose of increase of the level of legal culture are considered. In particular, activity of the Plenipotentiary for human rights in the Khabarovsk territory from the point of view of its role in the formation of legal culture of the citizens as one of the most important quality indicators of extent of socialization of the personality, its social and legal adaptation to the order existing in the society is analyzed. The level of legal culture of the population, in general, and its separate groups and layers, in particular, in no small measure determines a condition of the law and the order in the country, further development of democracy and the civil society.